Merlinity

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Journal Community
Name: Merlinity
Date(s): active 2010-2019
Moderator: Mrs Leary
Founder: Mrs Leary
Type: fanworks
Fandom: Merlin (TV series), Merlin RPF
URL: https://merlinity.livejournal.com/
Images of the actors and the characters against a background of blue and green over an ink drawing of herbs.
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Merlinity was a LiveJournal community created in July 2010 by Mrs Leary, featuring the rarepairs of Gaius/Merlin of Merlin (TV series) and Colin Morgan/Richard Wilson of Merlin RPF.

While the 50-year age gap between the actors (and presumably an equivalent age gap for the characters) ensured these pairings would remain rare indeed, there were about 30 posts made to this community, featuring fanart, fanfiction and discussion, as well as opportunities to contribute to other Merlin-related challenges and prompt fests. At the time of writing, there are still 13 members, despite the community not being active since July 2019.

The community's tagging system was mildly idiosyncratic. Apart from tags for character, type of fanwork, pairing, rating and universe (that is, fandom), there were also tags for the nature of the post:

  • mode: celebration
  • mode: cogitation
  • mode: creation
  • mode: discussion
  • mode: information
  • mode: moderation
  • mode: recommendation[1]

References

  1. ^ Merlinity tags page, accessed 17 November 2024, and screenshotted above